What is the average salary for Producers and Directors?

The average salary for Producers and Directors is $105K per year, weighted across all cities with data and based on 11 public records.

Which cities pay Producers and Directors the most?

The highest-paying cities for Producers and Directors include New York, NY.

What skills do Producers and Directors need?

Key skills for Producers and Directors include Domain Expertise, Problem Solving, Communication, Collaboration, Analytical Thinking.

Producers and Directors

Salary benchmarks based on 11 public records across 1 city.

Limited data: 11 points across cities

What do Producers and Directors do?

Produce or direct stage, television, radio, video, or film productions for entertainment, information, or instruction. Responsible for creative decisions, such as interpretation of script, choice of actors or guests, set design, sound, special effects, and choreography.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, SOC 2018 (SOC 27-2012)

What our data shows for Producers and Directors

RoleHue publishes 11 salary records for Producers and Directors, across a single city. Weighted by how many records each city contributes, the band runs from $81,390 at the 25th percentile to $141,806 at the 75th, a spread of $60,416 around $105,000. Each of those three figures averages the city-level percentiles rather than ranking the pooled records, and weights each city by how many records it holds, so the cities we hold most data for pull them hardest. Measured against that $105,000 figure rather than in dollars (58% of it), that spread is wider than 90% of the roles we cover, so a single figure summarises this title worse than it does most others.

Every one of those records comes from New York, NY, so nothing on this page should be read as a national figure. It is one metro's picture, and it will change shape as other cities reach the ten-record threshold we require before publishing a number.

Salary Overview

Weighted average across all cities with available data. Based on 11 data points.

$81K

P25

$105K

P50

$142K

P75

P25 $81K P50 $105K P75 $142K

Top Paying Cities

New York, NY

$105K n=11

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Source: U.S. Department of Labor disclosure filings for Producers and Directors roles, plus anonymous submissions.

How we calculate benchmarks

Benchmarks last recalculated: 2026-06-08. That is when we recomputed the statistics · the underlying filings are older. See methodology for how current the data is.